GRATIOLA

Source indications

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • nervous prostration
  • marked lassitude
  • mental weakness
  • bodily weakness
  • weakness of the will
  • neuralgic pains in coffee drinkers
  • hypochondria
  • melancholia
  • nymphomania
  • convulsive conditions without loss of consciousness
  • better in open air
  • chilly in a warm room
  • complaints predominate on the left side
  • constant vaporous exhalations from the body
  • catarrhal conditions of the stomach and intestines with spasmodic ailments
  • lack of will power
  • aversion to work
  • mental depression
  • capriciousness
  • very irritable
  • hypochondriacal
  • fear of the future
  • complaints from pride
  • bad effects from coffee and alcohol
  • nervous complaints associated with stomach and bowel troubles
  • vertigo during and after eating
  • vertigo on closing the eyes
  • vertigo while reading
  • vertigo on rising from a seat
  • vertigo on motion
  • vertigo with cerebral hyperaemia
  • heat and fullness of the head
  • sensation as though the head grew smaller
  • pulsation in head
  • pulsation in temples
  • rush of blood to head after rising from stooping
  • head symptoms are better in the open air and worse or come on in a warm room
  • pain in the occiput in the morning on waking better rising or lying on the face
  • sick headaches
  • nausea
  • vomiting or disgust for food with vertigo
  • pain in occiput from sneezing
  • head feels cold and is sensitive to cold air
  • cold sensation of vertex
  • corrugated forehead during the headache
  • itching of the scalp
  • itching of the eyes and ears
  • mist before the eyes while reading and green objects appear white
  • pain in eyes as from sand
  • itching in the nose
  • sensation of burning heat in the face but it feels cold to the hand
  • swelling of the upper lip in the morning
  • sensation of tension of the face and tingling and it feels swollen
  • face is red
  • teeth ache from cold things taken in the mouth
  • grinding of teeth in brain affections
  • pain in the throat compelling constant swallowing
  • much mucus in the throat which he cannot eject
  • violent thirst
  • emptiness in the stomach after eating
  • emptiness when he does not need or desire food
  • craves nothing but bread
  • nausea better after eating and by eructations
  • vomiting of bitter sour water and mucus
  • feeling of anxiety in the stomach
  • cramping in the stomach after food and a heavy load that seems to go from side to side as he turns from side to side with nausea and eructations
  • distension after eating
  • pressure in stomach after eating
  • marked coldness in stomach
  • cramp and hard aching in stomach pain grows rapidly worse and seems to extend to back and kidneys
  • cold feeling in abdomen
  • cramping like colic with nausea
  • rumbling in abdomen with distension in afternoon and evening
  • swelling of mesenteric glands
  • pinching in abdomen better by passing flatus
  • diarrhoea with copious gushing yellow or yellowish-green frothy watery stools
  • copious watery vomiting and purging like cholera morbus
  • copious green watery stools
  • diarrhoea brought on from drinking large quantities of water due to the violent thirst
  • during the diarrhoea he is often sensitive to draft and open air which give him urging to stool
  • cured fully developed rapid Asiatic cholera
  • green stools and green vomiting unconscious stools
  • before stool nausea rumbling cutting tenesmus
  • during stool nausea burning in rectum straining
  • after stool burning in rectum tenesmus pain in coccyx creeping chills pain in abdomen
  • protrusion of stinging burning haemorrhoids
  • tearing and pricking in anus
  • constriction in anus itching anus
  • ascarides
  • burning in the urethra during and after urination
  • scanty urine becomes turbid on standing
  • unconscious discharge of urine
  • stitching in left spermatic cord to abdomen and chest
  • marked irritability of the sexual organs
  • sexual desire is greatly excited
  • desire is so violent that it drives her to secret vice
  • menses are too early and profuse
  • darting pain in right mamma when stooping and during menses worse on rising
  • leucorrhoea with pains in sacrum
  • violent palpitation after stool with oppression of chest
  • heat in chest head hands with red face
  • rheumatic pains in upper limbs
  • sore bruised pains in lower limbs after walking
  • tearing in the tibia while sitting better while walking
  • sleepiness after eating
  • deep sleep
  • itching and burning of the skin after scratching